An Upper Arlington man accused of driving drunk in a hit-skip crash that critically injured a bicyclist turned himself in yesterday after a Franklin County grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Andrew S. Inglis, 30, of Lafayette Drive, is charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular assault and one count of failure to stop, all felonies, and operating a vehicle while impaired, a misdemeanor.

John Futty, The Columbus Dispatch

An Upper Arlington man accused of driving drunk in a hit-skip crash that critically injured a bicyclist turned himself in yesterday after a Franklin County grand jury indicted him on felony charges.

Andrew S. Inglis, 30, of Lafayette Drive, is charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular assault and one count of failure to stop, all felonies, and operating a vehicle while impaired, a misdemeanor.

If convicted on all counts, he could be sentenced to 61/2 years in prison, according to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien.

Inglis is accused of striking Steve Wartenberg, a Dispatch reporter and bicycling blogger, from behind on McCoy Road near Kenny Road in Upper Arlington at 11:44 a.m. Sunday. Some witnesses stopped to assist Wartenberg while others pursued the fleeing driver.

Wartenberg was in OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital yesterday and is expected to recover.

Three misdemeanor charges against Inglis were dismissed yesterday morning in Franklin County Municipal Court so the case could be presented to the grand jury.

Martin Midian, Inglis’ attorney, said he arranged for his client to report to the Franklin County jail in response to a warrant that was filed with the indictment. “He does not wish to run from the charges,” Midian said.

It was the second time in 17 days that Inglis was charged with driving while impaired and leaving the scene of a crash.

On Oct. 17, Columbus police stopped Inglis at Sullivant Avenue and S. Highland Avenue on the Hilltop about 2 a.m. after a witness reported seeing him driving erratically minutes earlier on I-71. The witness said he was following a car that was traveling about 20 mph on the freeway and saw the vehicle swerve to the left berm and begin to “bounce off of the wall,” according to a traffic-crash report.

The witness continued following the car from northbound I-71 to westbound I-70.

Inglis is charged with misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle while impaired, hit-skip and failure to signal in that incident. Inglis volunteered to provide a blood sample for testing after his October arrest, and investigators are awaiting the results, Midian said, so his driver’s license was not suspended.

“He was driving with a valid license” at the time of Sunday’s crash, Midian said. He said results also aren’t back from a urine sample that Inglis provided to police on Sunday.

Inglis is scheduled to be arraigned in Common Pleas Court on Friday in the latest case and in Municipal Court on Wednesday in the October case.